"Ha-ha, I couldn't ask for more!"
Zhang Yang suddenly threw back his head and laughed boisterously. He looked bold and unrestrained, and at that moment, he suddenly grew curious about the city lord of the former Spring Return County, now Spring Return City.
Ordinary mortals would never use the term Era of Demise Calamity. Even awakened New Humans would not use it. There was only one kind of person who would—cultivators.
After Zhang Yang led his people into Spring Return City with that troop of knights, this judgment of his became even clearer. The entire Spring Return City had truly become a cultivation fortress. Almost everything in the city could be linked to cultivators: the city walls engraved with protective arrays, the watchtowers arranged with anti-flight formations, the spirit fruits watered with spirit spring water, and even the streets, which were covered with spirit-gathering arrays.
This was a city built entirely around cultivation as its core driving force.
Along the way, Zhang Yang appeared shocked on the surface, but he was even more shocked inside. He recognized many of the formations and restrictions here. It was not because he was learned or possessed a mind stuffed with books—his understanding of the Golden Core Path consisted of only one Great Dao Scripture.
So how could he not be astonished when he saw so many immortal arts and restrictions from the Great Dao Scripture in Spring Return City?
Yet what shocked him even more was still to come.
Spring Return City was not large, but the City Lord's Manor occupied at least half of it. Thus, the troop of knights soon brought Zhang Yang and the others there. Outside the manor's main gate stood a young man in a sky-blue robe. His face was as handsome as jade, and his bearing was